COMPUTING FOR THE BEWILDERED

Beginners Classes

(Provisional) Syllabus

This is a brief resumé of what will be covered during the sessions.  It is not fixed in tablets of stone.  There will be plenty of opportunity for students to discuss other matters which may arise from time to time.

 

The Internet

What is it.

What do you need

What can you do

 

Getting a connection

Sockets and clients

Browsing the web

Search engines

Favourites

E-mail

Configuring an account

E-mail addresses

Plain text vs. HTML

Attachments

Viruses.

FTP

News Groups

 

Graphics and Image Handling

 

Scanners

Graphics formats

Text Formats

Difference between text and text-as-graphics

 

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